Features of the activities of the first Gymnastic Society in the Kharkov province at the end of the XIX and beginning of the XX century

Authors

  • Larysa Taran

Keywords:

Gymnastic Society, sports movement, physical education, sport, Kharkov province

Abstract

Purpose: to establish the features and areas of activity for the development of physical culture and sports in the territory of the Kharkov province of the 1st Gymnastic Society.

Material & Methods: the research material was preserved in rare editions – reports on the activities of the Kharkov Gymnastic Society for 1895, 1896, 1900, 1909. Research methods: analysis and synthesis of scientific literature data, problem-search, historical-systemic and logical methods.

Results: revealed that at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, sports spread in large cities, and educational institutions and sports societies became the basis for the development of physical culture and sports. Kharkov 1st Gymnastic Society began to work one of the first in the Kharkov region. The use of various forms of organization of classes made it possible to carry out extensive campaigning among the population of Kharkov to attract physical education and sports, including women and children; contribute to the development of sports that the Society has cultivated.

Conclusions: as a result of the study, the year of foundation and founders of the 1st Gymnastic Society was established. The results of previous scientific studies on the functioning of societies at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries were expanded in the following areas: organizational structure and composition, functions of a teacher (trainer), attracting women and children to physical education, sources of income and expense items, timetable and forms of organization of classes , activities for the development of physical education and individual sports in the territory of Kharkov province, the 1st Gymnastic Society.

References

.Baldzhi, I. & Salenko, G. (2016), "Physical Culture and Sports Movement in the Yekaterinoslav Province in the Pre-Revolutionary Period (End of the 19th Century – 1917)", Sportivniy vіsnik Pridnіprov'ya, No. 1, pp. 152-157. (in Russ.)

Bondar, A.S. (2012), “The History of the Development and Traditions of Sports in the Slobozhanshchina”, Slobozans`kij naukovo-sportivnij visnik, No. 5, pp. 156-159. (in Russ.)

Vatseba, O. (1997), Narysy z istorii zakhidnoukrainskoho sportyvnoho rukhu [Essays on the History of Western Ukrainian Sports Movement], Ivano-Frankivsk. (in Ukr.)

Vostroknutov, L.D. (2001), “The Legal Basis of Activity of Sports Organizations in Ukraine (End of XIX – Beginning of XX Century)”, Visnyk Kharkivskoho natsionalnoho universytetu vnutrishnikh sprav, Vypusk 15, pp. 151-155. (in Ukr.)

Hasiuk, I.L. (2009), “The evolution of the organizational and legal foundations of public management of physical culture and sports in the Ukrainian lands at the end of the 19th century and in the Soviet period”, Universytetski naukovi zapysky, No. 4 (32), pp. 261-272. (in Ukr.)

Hryban, H.P. (2018), “The History of Activity of Sports Societies in Zhytomyr Region in 1893–1922”, Fizychna kultura, sport ta zdorovia natsii, No. 5, pp. 446-453. (in Ukr.)

Liakh-Porodko, O.O. (2009), “Peculiarities of Formation of the Falcon Movement in the Ukrainian Lands of the Russian Empire at the Beginning of the XX Century”, Teoriia i metodyka fizychnoho vykhovannia i sportu, No 1, pp. 86-99. (in Ukr.)

Oleynik, N.A. & Grot, Yu.I. (2002), Istoriya fizicheskoy kultury i sporta na Kharkovshchine [The history of physical culture and sports in the Kharkov region], Vol. 1, pp. 5-11. (in Russ.)

Report on the activities of the Kharkov Gymnastic Society for 1895 (1896), Kharkiv, 19 p. (in Russ.)

Report on the activities of the Kharkov Gymnastic Society for 1896 (1897), Kharkiv, 15 p. (in Russ.)

Report on the activities of the Kharkov Gymnastic Society from February 1, 1900 to February 1, 1901 (1901), Kharkiv, 13 p. (in Russ.)

Ustinova, T. (2012), “The Development of Gymnastic Movement in the Context of Physical Education in Europe (Second Half of the 19th Century – 30s of the 20th Century)”, Teoriia i metodyka fizychnoho vykhovannia i sportu, No. 3, pp. 134-138. (in Ukr.)

Fil, S.M., Khudolii, O.M. & Malka, H.V. (2003), Istoriia fizychnoi kultury [History of Physical Culture], pp. 99-101. (in Ukr.)

Kharkov 1st Gymnastic Society. Annual report from February 1, 1909 to February 1, 1910 (1910), Kharkov, 15 p. (in Russ.)

Downloads

Published

2019-12-30

Issue

Section

Статті